Washington, D.C. and four states are requiring sixth-grade girls to receive the three-shot Gardasil vaccine before entering school this year. Gardasil protects against the "four strains of the sexually transmitted Human Pappilomavirus (HPV)" most likely to cause cervical cancer and genital warts.
Mandating that girls receive the vaccine at age 11 or 12 (there is currently [...]

Fight HIV in D.C. has just posted a new factsheet about development and testing of the "therapeutic HIV vaccine," a treatment meant to help control the spread of a virus in someone who has already contracted HIV. As HIV in D.C.'s David Mariner explains, the proposed therapeutic HIV vaccine differs from a preventative vaccine in [...]